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Search Engines

There are a variety of ways of searching for information on the Internet, and each of these links provides a different way. Some provide access to lists or indexes organized by general topics. Others provide a way of typing in a key-word or a phrase, which will give you a list of possible places on the Internet that match.

  Alta Vista is a very fast and comprehensive search engine maintained by Digital Equipment Corporation.You can search thoroughly for documents presented in a number of languages

Deja News Research Service allows you to search archives of Usenet Newsgroups.

Excite lets you search World Wide Web documents, the past two weeks of Usenet Discussion Groups, and a few other useful services

. Virtual Shareware Library is one of the best ways to locate shareware files on the Internet.

Yahoo is one of the original, and some same the best, Internet indexes organized by category. It allows you to browse its indexes or do a search.

InfoSeek Searching lets you search by keywords and phrases This comprehensive and accurate Web list of cataloged and reviewed sites is a subset of a larger, Net-wide commercial service                             

  Lycos Web Home Page is a comprehensive search tool, using keywords.Lycos is consistently rated highly for the number and relevancy of the hits it returns.  

HotBot   The wired search center

Magellan is organized by category and is also searchable.It offers access to a database of Internet resources. McKinley's Internet directory features thousands of rated sites, with a "green light" rating given to sites that are apparently free of adult content.

  Open Text Index is very fast, and also provides a way of doing "Power Searches".